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The Mount

A Category A Listed Building in Lochar, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.1123 / 55°6'44"N

Longitude: -3.6089 / 3°36'32"W

OS Eastings: 297467

OS Northings: 580953

OS Grid: NX974809

Mapcode National: GBR 397B.G5

Mapcode Global: WH5WB.JRPP

Plus Code: 9C7R496R+WC

Entry Name: The Mount

Listing Name: Carnsalloch Chapel at the Mount

Listing Date: 26 June 1986

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 342730

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB10301

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200342730

Location: Kirkmahoe

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Lochar

Parish: Kirkmahoe

Traditional County: Dumfriesshire

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Description

E B Lamb, architect, circa 1850. Small private chapel with
apse and crypt. Decorated Gothic. Stugged and snecked red
ashlar with droved or polished dressings. 2 bays, stepped
buttresses, gableted above eaves, 5-sided apse at east,
elaborately carved, pointed-arched entrance between 2
buttresses in west gable: studded 2-leaf door with
decorative hinges below shallow pointed arch, ball-flower
moulded reveals, initials AI and LJ in spandrels: tall
tympanum with curvilinear tracery and (broken) leaded
lights; crest in gable above. Pointed windows to bays and
to aspe (east window reaches above eaves): all openings
hood-moulded, with label stops. Off-set below cill level;
eaves cornice; blocking course with shields over openings;
stone flagged and ribbed roof with decorative ridging.
Approached from east by 3 flights of stone steps.

Statement of Interest

Now disused and neglected. Built for Johnstones of

Carnsalloch.

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